The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre has published, ahead of the UK General Election on 7 May, a report called An agenda for the election, and recommendations for the next government. British companies have a massive impact on human rights around the world....
Press release from Loose Anti Opencast Network, 30 January 2015 Yesterday afternoon MPs debated the issue of un-restored opencast coal sites that exist across England, Scotland and Wales in a debate entitled “Opencast Coal Sites (Restoration)” (1) . MPs from Wales,...
28 October 2014 Campaigners have welcomed the outcome of an inquiry into the extractives sector conducted by the Parliamentary Committee on Business, Innovation and Skills, calling on the government to take action on the sector that campaigners have accused of being...
In its new report Och-Ziff, Mugabe’s “Bagmen” and the underpricing of African assets, RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) calls on the US authorities to investigate a number of questionable transactions in Africa by Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC...
CORE/Amnesty International UK press release, 6 April 2014 ‘While paying lip service to corporate responsibility, the government was conniving with multinationals to reduce their exposure to litigation for the worst kind of abuses.’ – Marilyn Croser The oil giant Shell...
